Nuno felting tutorial

Can tulle be used with the nuno felting technique? The answer is yes, of course! Confirming that and trying it out with our extra fine merino wool is.

Grasping the concept of felting, the process of meshing fibers together to create felt, isn’t too difficult, and in fact, felting can be a fantastic creative outlet and hobby. When you begin to explore some of the lesser-known techniques, however, things can start to get a little confusing. What’s the difference between wet felting and nuno felting?

Two weeks ago my friend Antoinette and I got together in her beautiful backyard to batik some silk fabric which we would later nuno felt. For more information on the batik process click HERE. Yesterday we got together at my house for the nuno felting portion of our textile adventure. I had hand dyed some wool roving and other silks to coordinate with the batiks we did. I started off with a piece of the batiked silk 132" long by 19" wide and after the felting process, the finished scarf was…

Nuno felting is a technique developed in 1994 by the textile artists Polly Stirling and Sachiko Kotaka. By manipulating a small amount of wool fiber through a base fabric, they learned they could create a felted fabric with characteristics quite different from traditional felt. Nuno felt is thin, lightweight and drapeable. A similar process to wet wool felting, Nuno felting brings 2 different materials together to create a whole new textured fabric. While I was in Tucson for the Crystallized…

A while back Ruth got some free samples of some cheese cloth or cotton gauze from Cheese Cloth Fabric.com. She dyed some and sent me some samples. I also had a more open weave cheese cloth that I …

A blog about nuno felted seamless garments and accessories, mah jongg jewelry, Studio 907, nuno felting workshops, Beth Marx, So Cal

There's a craft technique I recently learned about I hadn't heard of before, nuno felting. I had to get curious about how this creative process worked!

Zed of “Felt By Zed” is hosting a Giveaway on “The Felting and Fiber Studio” site for her new PDF e-book, “Beyond Nuno”. The book is 72 pages and is all about …

I personally like the feel of silk. So, I decided to learn to make a silk ruffled edge on a scarf. This was an experiment for the ruffle and using a few other techniques with different fabrics an…

Wet Felting Wool: Add Color & Texture the Easy Way! Step by step wet felting tutorial for wet felting carded wool fiber or roving

How to beautifully & quickly Nuno Felt. This tutorial for Nuno felting my first simple Shawl uses an electric sander to speed up the process.

Nuno and cobweb felt.

Felted books are thick and squishy, with a set of characteristics quite different from paper books. I learned the wet-felting technique in 2...

I have been wanting to try this for YEARS! As usual, I collect “stuff” before hand, as I just know that I will do this someday. Well, well, someday finally came! I drove to The Tin Thim…

I haven't done a nuno felting tutorial so I thought it might come in handy for those of you who haven't tried it before and need a little guidance. The most important thing to remember about nuno felting is that you need to be more gentle and take a little more time when you start…

Nuno scarf layout, Lori Harding